Biography

Sayantan is Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School and Dean of Interdisciplinarity and Impact at the Colege of Social Sciences. He was a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick from 2004 to 2013 where he was Research Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He also has a PhD from CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain under the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics.

Large-scale fieldwork

In Kolkata, India, in collaboration with the Durbar Foundation, a long-term piece of fieldwork to examine the impact and the channels through which such impact occurs, of a training program "Dream Building", aimed at a marginalised, stigmatised group of sex workers in Kolkata, on aspirations, self-perception (as measured by self-efficacy and locus of control) and actions (e.g. savings behaviour) to improve their own well-being (with Anandi Mani (Oxford), Sanchari Roy (Kings College), Smarajit Jana (Durbar) and Sandip Mitra(ISI Kolkata).

In Karnataka, India, to examine the impact and the channels through which such impact occurs, of empowerment training (e.g. ReflectionAction!) on the ability of disadvantaged groups to engage in collective action (ensuring effective participation in School Management and Development Committees) in the presence of more socially and optically powerful agents and groups (with Patricio Dalton (Tilburg), Chris Chapman (Glasgow), Michelle Schweisfurth (Glasgow), Theo Koutmeridis (Glasgow), Meena Nair (Public Affairs Centre) and Satyajeet Nanda (Public Affairs Centre).

Invited participant

Winter Meetings of the European Econometric Society, 11-13 January, 2001, Venice. (This is for a selected group of 20 academic economists under the age of 35. Only two economists are selected from the U.K. each year.) (Invited by Prof. R. Blundell, UCL).

Membership of scientific/program committee of international conferences

“16th European Workshop on General Equilibrium, June 9 - 10, 2007”

Royal Economic Society Meetings, 2006-9

European Econometric Society Meetings, 2008

“25th European Workshop on General Equilibrium, June 19 - 20, 2016”

Organiser/co-organiser of academic workshops

“World Economy and Finance”, Summer Research Workshop and Conference, Warwick, 11-15 July 2007.

"Climate Change Workshop" on the 22 January 2008 (with Andrew Sentence and John Whalley and co-funded by the Center of Globalisation and Regionalisation and Globalisation at Warwick, CIGI and the Department of Economics at Warwick).

Invited speaker at conferences and workshops

International Symposium on Mathematical Programming for Decision Making: Theory and Applications (ISMPDM07), 10-11 January 2007, part of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Indian Statistical Institute;

“Credit Boom, Credit Crunch and Central Banking” (Special Session at RES 2008 organised by John Driffil for the ESRC World Economy and Finance Research Program);

“Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics”, (A Conference held at University of East Anglia, Organised by Robert Sugden, 3-5 April 2008).

“The new Microfoundations of Macroeconomics”, (ESRC World Economy and Finance Research Program conference held at University of Warwick, Organised by John Driffil, Marcus Miller, Tom Krebs, Peter Hammond), 14 -15 July 2009).

“Optimism and Pessimism about the Human Future”, Glasgow Festival of Science, June 2017.

World Conference of International Economic Association, Invited Session on Sovereign Debt (organised by Martin Guzman and Joe Stiglitz), June 2017.

Workshop on “Disadvantage”, funded by British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA) Early Career Network on ‘Inequality Conflict and Violence’, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Young Academy of Scotland, 6-7 July 2017.

External Advisor for promotions at Singapore Management University, Southampton and Queen Mary College (University of London)

Scholarships awarded

PhD fellowship at CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1991-95

National scholarship at the Delhi School of Economics, 1988-90

College Merit Scholarship, Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, 1986-87

Refereeing/editorial work

Econometrica, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behaviour, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, International Economic Review, Economic Theory, American Economic Journal (Microeconomics), Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Review of Economic Design, International Review of Law and Economics, Annales d’Economie et de Statistiques, Manchester School, Bulletin of Economic Research, Journal of International Development.